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October 2008



[pycon2008] Video of "Managing Complexity" up

2008.10.28 Tue 1:05 P GMT-07
I gave a talk at pycon 2008 dealing with testing, code coverage, complexity and how to know when you are "done" testing. Though the talk was given at a Python conference, and the examples are in python, the talk is actually a general discussion of d
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Open source development and OpenOffice.org

2008.10.10 Fri 7:43 A GMT-07
Gnomer (and Novell employee), Michael Meeks, provides some great insight into the health and viability of the Open Office project. A complex wonder of engineering (supporting .doc in some cases better than Word) while also supporting open standards,
Category: python linux open source

Sticker propaganda

2008.10.08 Wed 9:43 A GMT-07
Spent the morning giving a talk to my daughter's school class on "What does daddy do for work?". Actually it was more about programming and what skills are important for programming. I didn't really have any nice work swag (I think the only thing w
Category: python linux open source
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Creating large excel spreadsheets (xlwt) in python

2008.10.06 Mon 3:15 P GMT-07
My brother has a patch for xlwt so it can create large Excel spreadsheets in python. Without this patch memory consumption explodes for large spreadsheets. For those who are wondering, some people don't want to deal with csv ;) Their world revolve
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zipwrap - a unixy python interface for zipfiles

2008.10.01 Wed 2:54 P GMT-07
Sometimes you need to play with zipfiles, jars, wars, or odt files. So I've written an interface that allows for easy creation of zip files from existing zips or directories. I think the "unixy" interface (ie, cat, touch, rm, mkdir) is simple and e
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